Much of the advice you get from the experts is to listen, listen, listen, because apparently at some point your kids stop talking to you.
As the mother to one teenager, one almost teen, a 9 year old and a 3 year old I have yet to experience this phenomenon. I’m well aware that my teen doesn’t tell me everything and quite frankly as far as I’m concerned she would be rather unusual if she did, but not talking is unheard of in our house. In fact we have been desperate enough as overworked exhausted parents to try and convince the smaller (read more gullible) kids in the house that each person only gets to use each word a limited amount of times and that if you talk too much you are in danger of running out of words. Cruel? Possibly. Necessary? Definitely. I still believe that this would have been a successful strategy for quiet time if the older two hadn’t sprung us.
In my experience should you ever be concerned that your kids are not talking enough I have a few helpful hints.
1. Sit on the toilet, this is guaranteed to get them talking to you through the door. Should you ban this however you may be as lucky as I am and get notes passed under the door.
2. Pick up the phone. The minute a connection is made your child will desperately need to tell you about the awesome dream they had last Wednesday.
3. Try to watch TV.
These are sure-fire ways of getting your kids talking!
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